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Virt-viewer can not open display. RHEL6. KVM.

Hey experts.

I'm hope most of you are home from work - not all of us are at the moment ... :(

Built the machine on monday - KVM enabled.
I have an rhel6 box, w/ libvirt installed.

After attempting to install / create first vm

using command line:

virt-install \
-n dev-rhel6-httpd \
-r 1536 \
--os-type=linux \
--os-variant=rhel6 \
--accelerate \
--hvm \
--vnc \
--network network:default \
--disk path=/tmp/dev-rhel6-httpd.img,size=100
--cdrom=/dev/cdrom

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Results in "domain installation still in progress. you can reconnect to the console to complete the installtion process."

If I attempt to run virt-viewer, I get the error msg 'Can not open display:'

If I were to run virt-viewer --display= [whatever], i get 'Can not open display: [whatever]'

I am including the vm img file name when using virt-viewr command

Please advise experts.

Thank you in advance,
steve

IanTh

I am having a similar issue with debian (Proxmox) creating virtual ubuntu server the display fails I think its connected to java openjdk is installed not sun I dont know if rhl6 is the same

Imaginx

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From what I understand, qemu in rhel6 is the hypervisor - which is developed mostly on python ( & i think maybe C )

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Imaginx

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doesnt solve the issue in the manner it was asked - no solution to the command line was found.

solution to technical problem was solved using virt-manager gui to create vm's